Background technology
In an application example, according to the bottle of rechargeable of the present invention dress, can distribute production sample, particularly for be packaged in small product size in container 1 and 10ml between product distribute.Especially, the sample distributing thus can make client can test this product, thereby this bottle is restricted to test sample bottle.Selectively, than the bottle of more volume, because those bottles are huge, conventionally they all weigh with volume greatly, and this bottle can " pack sack into ", because the product that they have made to dwindle volume can easily be carried.
In these application, for example, the reason reclaiming for the reason of logic aspect, practicality or environment, may be gratifying is can be again product-filled to container from the source of described product.In fact, for user, with little funnel, coming again container filling unpractical, is disagreeableness to environment and throw away that empty bottle replaces with the replacement container with full.
The container of rechargeable dress is by for sale, and wherein, main body is provided with one for the valve of container filling again, and valve is configured to a product source to be placed in and to be communicated with described container so that container can be by again filling.Especially, valve comprises a passage for being communicated with between product source and container, and described passage has the bearing that valve element is housed, and valve elements relative is being closed the sealing station of described passage and opening between the position of described passage and move in described bearing.
Filling in order to carry out again, prior art has proposed to use the source bottle part that comprises monoplunger pump, and valve element moves by the nozzle of described pump.Especially, the sealing of valve element top nozzle contact makes the described valve element can reversibly opening, thereby and pump activated product-derived is injected to container by valve.
Yet first this embodiment need to remove the button on the nozzle of the pump that is arranged on source bottle part, and will repeatedly start described nozzle to inject sufficient small product size, this is difficulty and not directly perceived for user.In addition, after again filling, the inappropriate replacement meeting of the button on described nozzle is caused to potential harm to the follow-up proper operation of described source bottle part.
In addition, there is sealing problem in pouring process in this embodiment again, particularly because the correct location of the nozzle contacting with the sealing of valve element is difficult, and because passes through the pressure of the product of valve injection.In addition, valve of the prior art does not mate from the configuration of different commercially available types of nozzles, and this has just limited again the filling possibility that is equipped with the bottle of this type of valve, unless one group of adapter is set, and this can make the again filling further complicated of sealing.
The specific embodiment
In this manual, sterically defined term be with respect to especially as Fig. 5,6 and 7a as shown in the vertical position of bottle of rechargeable dress use.
With reference to accompanying drawing, the bottle of a rechargeable dress is described below, described bottle is for holding fluid product to be allocated.In specific embodiment, product can be liquid, particularly beauty care items, cosmetics or fragrance product or drug products.
The bottle of rechargeable dress comprises main body 1, is formed for the container 2 of packaging product in main body.According to application-specific, the capacity of container 2 can be at 1ml between 10ml, so that the sample of product can distribute.
In an illustrated embodiment, main body 1 is rigidity, especially has enough rigidity for making the volume of container 2 keep substantially constant, even if internal pressure changes.Main body 1 can be parts, for example by injection-blowing technique or extrude-blowing technique produce, or a plurality of parts adopt injection moulding then to assemble, for example pass through ultra-sonic welded, or pass through laser, or assemble by spin friction, and for example aluminium or glass are made by rigidity plastics, metal.
Described bottle comprises that distribution device is arranged in main body 1 with sealing means for distributing the distribution device of described packaged product.In an illustrated embodiment, distribution device comprises the pump 3 by means of button 4 manual activation, and by being arranged on, the plunger tube in container 25 provides product to described pump.
Yet the present invention is not limited to an embodiment of product.Especially, the device for other type of extraction vessel 2 products is also admissible.Distribution device also can comprise for using the device of described product, for example, be the form of pearl.
Button 4 comprises dispensing orifice 6 and upper area 4a, makes user can apply finger pressure thereon so that the nozzle of pump 3 moves on its stroke, thereby is dispensing orifice supply pressurized product.In an illustrated embodiment, button 4 is equipped with nozzle, and nozzle is arranged for by dispensing orifice 6 radial distribution aerosol products.Yet particularly for nasal spray end piece, button 4 is allocated product axially.Selectively, product can drip or layer form be assigned with.
Described bottle is equipped with the valve 7 for filling containers 2, thereby valve is arranged, a product source 8 is placed in to be connected with container and makes container by again filling.With reference to each accompanying drawing, main body 1 has upper opening 1a and lower openings 1b, and pump 3 is arranged in upper opening by back-shaped 9, and lower openings is equipped with again filling valve 7.
Lower openings 1b is formed on the bottom of main body 1, and filling valve 7 comprises skirt section 10 again, and periphery ground below described opening, skirt section axially extends.Thus, formed the communicating passage 11 being communicated with between product source 8 and container 2, described communicating passage extends in skirt section 10.In the accompanying drawings, skirt section 10 forms single parts with main body 1, but skirt section also can be attached under main body.
Communicating passage 11 has the bearing 12 that is equipped with valve element 13, and valve elements relative is in described bearing at the sealing station of closing passage with to open between the position of passage be movably.Especially, bearing 12 can be formed on the periphery of lower openings 1b.
Valve element 13 is arranged to, and at the bottle being filled by rechargeable, in stand up position, (under the Action of Gravity Field that the location of Fig. 7 a) and in upturned position (7b) causes, valve element moves between its off position and open position respectively.Therefore, by the simple gravity in the passage 11 between product source 8 and unloading container 2 flow can carry out again filling, again filling can vertically installation in product source 8 by the bottle that rechargeable is filled, completes the simple motion of the bottle-product source of rechargeable dress 8 assemblies upsets subsequently.
In the embodiment shown, vertical position is corresponding to the normal position of using the bottle of rechargeable dress, and wherein button 4 is arranged to towards top.Selectively, if valve element 13 is in the closed position under Action of Gravity Field, the orientation of the bottle of the dress of the rechargeable in vertical position can be different so.
Particularly, because described product lacks pressurization, the bottle of the rechargeable dress in vertical position can be installed and be connected in product source 8, and can not cause the transmission of product.Then, upturned position, corresponding to a rotary state of bottle-product source 8 assemblies of rechargeable dress, to described source is placed in to the top of container 2, thereby is undertaken again filling by flowing.In Fig. 7, rotation is 180 °, but can have different angles, as long as be enough to open valve element 13 under Action of Gravity Field.
Again, after filling, before disconnecting described bottle, bottle-product source 8 assemblies of rechargeable dress turn back to its initial position, so that can use subsequently it.Especially, described upset is closed valve element 13 under Action of Gravity Field.
Connection with figures, valve element 13 comprises annular section 14, when off position, annular section and the complementary portion 15 of bearing 12 become sealing and contacts that (a), described part is arranged to have one apart from (Fig. 7 b) apart from described complementary portion at open position to Fig. 7.In order to improve the leak tightness of off position, described part 14,15 can be Frusto-conical.
In addition, valve element 13 is provided with ballast element 16, and the weight of ballast element is enough to make described valve element to open and close between position and move at it.Especially, ballast element 16 produces the sealing thrust of annular section 14 on complementary portion 15, and has guaranteed the separation of described two parts during overturning.
In an illustrated embodiment, valve element 13 can move by axial translation between its off position and open position.Selectively, valve element 13 by the distortion being caused by gravity, especially by the distortion of annular section 14 on bearing 12, can move arbitrarily on compensability ground between its off position and open position.
In the drawings, valve element 13 comprises upper case 17, and upper case has lower edge 17a, forms annular section 14 on lower edge, and attached ballast element 16, for example, be metal matrix, is fixed in described shell.Selectively, ballast element 16 can be integrated with valve element 13, particularly by produce described valve element with high density material, for example, is filled with poly-mer or the metallic material of metallic particles.
Valve element 13 comprises bottom rod member 18, and bottom rod member extends to shell 17 times, and described rod member is slidably mounted in the pipe 19 that is fixed on skirt section 10, and described rod member and described pipe are arranged to limit the end of the shift motion of valve element 13 when in an open position.Especially, rod member 18 is provided with attached terminal part 20, and this terminal part coordinates to form end travel stop with a crevice 21 of pipe 19.Selectively, this terminal part 20 can be integrated with rod member 18, and comprise telescopic shape memory device.
Pipe 19 is arranged on described skirt section 10 by least one rib 22.With reference to Fig. 4 b, adopt three ribs 22 with at three openings of the interior formation of communicating passage 11.Described each rib 22 is arranged to, by be substantially connected to 10 inside, skirt section and each rib on the whole axial dimension in skirt section, there is a free edge 22a who converges towards a radial base 22b especially, to promote the wall stream of product in communicating passage 11, radial base is connected to the periphery of pipe 19.
Therefore,, when the bottle of rechargeable dress is finishing again fillingly while turning back to vertical position, the wall stream that is contained in the product source 8 in communicating passage 11 is promoted, and with the product below the bottle that prevents from filling at rechargeable when disconnecting, leaks.
Class is with ground, to the surface of filling valve 7 again carrying out hydrophobic setting, thereby improves the wall stream of the product in communicating passage 11.Especially, the inside of valve 7 can be made into hydrophobic, for example, by fluoro plasma, process, in silicone bath, soak, or by adopting hydrophobic material to manufacture again filling valve 7 as PTFE.
Product source 8 comprises product container 23, and especially, it is formed in the bottle part capacious of bottle of volume ratio rechargeable dress.According to another embodiment, it is inner that source container 23 is formed on a flexible pouch, and flexible pouch can the filling good preservation for described product again without air or gas in the situation that.
Source container 23 is equipped with a lining 24, and lining is arranged to, and can make again filling valve 7 be sealedly connected on described source container by the passage 11 being communicated with source container.In addition, filling valve 7 is provided with the device for the bottle part on the product source 8 that is tightly connected again, and lining 24 is provided with connecting device, this connecting device and the connecting device complementation of filling valve 7 again.
In the accompanying drawings, lining 24 is included in the installation collar 25 on source bottle part 8 necks 26, and the described collar is arranged on described neck by back-shaped 27.The collar 25 has upper opening, and sleeve 28 is arranged on upper opening and is peripherally extending axially.Advantageously, lining 24 is not for the product-filled device that pressurizes again.Therefore, bottle part 8 can not be converted as source, because it does not have propelling gas or internal pressure.
Again the skirt section 10 of filling valve 7 is set to endwisely slip with respect to the sleeve 28 of lining 24.Especially, skirt section 10 and sleeve 28 are annular, and the external diameter in skirt section 10 is slightly less than the internal diameter of sleeve 28, thereby the bottle of rechargeable dress is seamlessly axially installed in product source 8.
In addition, skirt section 10 can be a little in the form of a truncated cone, and have lower inclined-plane 10a, thereby guarantee axially to slip into the radially tensioning in the process of sleeve 28 in described skirt section.In addition, skirt section 10 is connected in main body 1 by a radial component 29, and when sliding end, the upper end of sleeve 28 axially abuts against on this radial component 29.
In the illustrated embodiment, connecting device comprises the protruding part 30 that is fixed on skirt section 10 or sleeve 28, protruding part for be fixed to sleeve 28 or 10Shang inclined-plane, skirt section chute 31 matches, thereby make the bottle of rechargeable dress to install and be fixed on source container 23 at connection location.In the drawings, gap 10 formation around in skirt section along two relative protruding parts 30 of diameter, to match with the gap that is formed on two inclined-plane slideways 31 on sleeve 28, in described protruding part, be connected to the diameter that substantially equals main body 1 diameter, and there is the lower inclined plane 30a of being convenient in protruding part insertion inclined-plane chute 31.
Inclined-plane chute 31 comprises the axial component 31a sliding for protruding part 30 and the periphery 31b rotating for described protruding part.Therefore, obtain bayonet type operation, to the bottle of rechargeable dress is connected in product source 8 with sealing means.In the accompanying drawings, periphery 31b comprises for protruding part 30 being locked in to the projection 32 of connection location.In addition, skirt section 10 comprises hole 33, and described hole is arranged on protruding 32 bottoms, so that the distortion of projection in locking process.
Lip ring 34 is inserted between sleeve 28 and neck 26, and when the bottle of rechargeable dress is arranged in product source 8, the lower end in skirt section 10 is the described sealing member of contact axially.Therefore, by compressive seal 34, guarantee the connection sealing of passage 11, product is through channel flow during again filling.
Advantageously, filling valve 7 and/or lining 24 are provided with lid 35,36 again, and described lid is arranged in twice sealing that keeps container 2,23 between again filling.Each lid 35,36 comprise one with the connecting device of connecting device complementation filling valve 7 or lining 24 again.Therefore, lid 35,36 can according to in product source 8, disconnect respectively be connected the class of operation of bottle of rechargeable dress like operate, before again filling, remove, and close reposition after again filling.
In the accompanying drawings, the lid 35 of filling valve 7 has sheath 37 again, and lid 38 is arranged in sheath, and described lid has inclined-plane 39, and described clinohedral class is similar to the inclined-plane chute 31 of sleeve 28.Similarly, the lid 36 of lining 24 comprises sheath 40, and lid 41 is arranged in described sheath, and described lid is provided with one division device 42, is formed on described indexing attachment with the similar protruding part 43 of protruding part 30 on skirt section 10.